About Ashley
Ashley Howell is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, or life changes. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people manage day-to-day struggles and make steady progress.
She draws on seven years of experience in both clinical and medical settings. That history includes support for people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, cancer, dementia, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and medical trauma.
Background and approach
She also helps with career stress, compassion fatigue, panic attacks, obsessive worries, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Ashley uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She emphasizes client-centered conversations so people feel heard.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and mindfulness practices to ease intense emotions. Motivational interviewing often appears when people want to shift habits or make changes. Sessions typically focus on practical coping skills, clearer communication, and planning next steps.
Ashley can offer resources and suggestions that fit the situation, whether someone is coping with loss, adjusting to a new medical diagnosis, or rebuilding after burnout. She keeps language simple and goals concrete. People who prefer steady, collaborative work tend to do well with her.
She offers phone, video, chat, and text-based formats to fit different schedules. Her approach aims to make daily life easier and more manageable over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people can name what feels wrong and what they want to change. It helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through emotions and decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. In online sessions this can mean tracking stressful thoughts, testing them, and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on how emotions shape relationships and personal patterns. It is useful when someone wants to understand strong feelings, improve emotional connection, or work through grief and loss.
Finding the right mix of these approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting plans as progress is made.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection, phone sessions can fit into a busy day, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing helps people process. These options let people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while using the techniques that suit them best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English